YAMAGATA, Japan - Tsuruoka city in Yamagata Prefecture was on the losing side in the civil war that led to the birth of modern Japan, but one of the legacies of that defeat is "samurai silk," now listed as a Japan Heritage by the Cultural Affairs Agency.
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